Middle Aged Memories
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Joe Nameth had such a white smile. well before all the otc tooth whitening stuff.
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How about "Double your pleasure, double your fun with Double-mint Gum." The Double-mint twins?
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Coppertone. The ad with the baby with her undies half off. I can still smell Coppertone suntan lotion.
MEECE, there is no hope for me in getting images onto this site until I take the MAC course. I can copy and paste very well but I want to thank you for offering to help with the URL stuff. Even Makraz is in awe of your talents. Sue
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I remember the Indian on the horse--never realized he had a name. I remember him being on a hill overlooking a littered campground or forrest or something like that.
They do still sell Noxema, and I've even seen a generic version, but it didn't smell or feel quite the same as the original.
The DoubleMint twins were in the movie SpaceBalls--Charlene and Carlene were the names they used in the movie.
I rmember having a rabbit's foof, several in fact since I kept losing them. I also remember the joke that was old and tired then about the foot not being lucky for the rabbit. . .
The smell of Coppertone still means summer beach trips to me!
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NativeMainer..........is that your dog? Gosh, he has a nice winter coat for those Maine winters. Altho MA is not any warmer.........I cannot wait for Summer! Sue
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That's my Snookie--when I was shoveling the deck the other day she made me leave a patch of snow for her to recline on while she supervised the neighborhood comings and goings! Sometimes she goes routing around and rolling around in the snow--I let Snookie out and let the Abomidable Snow Snookie back in! Have to brush her off with a broom to keep the snow from getting all over the house.
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Snookie is one cute dog. I miss my Nibbles. She was part lab and part spaniel and loved to lay in the snow. She never learned how to wipe her feet (paws) when she came in from a back yard adventure. My previous 2 dogs were Golden Retrievers and boy! did those boys like the winter.
I am thinking of rescuing another dog but they I chicken out. But they are certainly good company! Sue
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Dogs? I forgot to write this back when susu1976 was posting about her Smokey Bear badge, and this is dog related too. I not only watched the cartoon, but also got an adjustable metal ring out of a Kellogg's box. Today's value is about $50! Yes, I still have it!
What do you remember getting out of cereal boxes?
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"Hippity hop to the barber shop, to get a ball in Tide." Remember the things we use to get out of a detergent box???
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Towels came in boxes of Tide once.
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I remember getting drinking glasses, too.
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I remember the dish towels and the glasses in detergent. Somewhere I have a stuffed Huckleberry Hound.
In Southern California, just off of the I-5 was a huge billboard that had the little Coppertone girl and a little black dog pulling her swimsuit bottoms down. It was a mechanical sign and the dog and swimsuit rocked as iff he were tugging on it. Coppertone tan won't (or Don't) burn.
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I remember a few "records" on the back of cereal boxes.
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Sue, I am not a MAC user, but I am sure you would use the same cut/paste of the urls for pictures here. I figure you must see the same BC.org desktop I see.
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I remember BEGGING my mother to buy us kids one of those Snak-Pak variety packages of cereal. My favorite was the one that had Sugar Pops (now CORN Pops). Then we would cut open the little boxes and the foil and pour the milk right in the box! To me, that was the coolest thing ever. Mom only broke down once or twice and got them. She was not a fan of the sugary cereals--mom and dad were oatmeal, Wheaties, Cheerios, and Corn Flakes people. We (kids) were Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, Quake, Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Crisp (Sugar Bear: "Can't get enough of Super Sugar Crisp") (noticing a pattern here?) Lucky Charms (magically delicious) Trix, and Froot Loops (Toucan Sam) kind of kids!! Hehehe
Gee--no wonder I'm addicted to all things sweet. How could I NOT be??
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susu--I STILL love Lucky Charms! And the generic version is NOT the same! My mom got us the cereal "box that makes it's own bowl" a few times, but only a few--again, too much sugar. I can't allow myself to buy Cap'n Crunch--I'll eat the whole box in one sitting.
I don't remember getting things in detergent boxes, but I remember little figurines in boxes of tea bags. Red Rose tea, maybe? I think the figurines were blue?
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I had not thought of Quisp or Quake for years. Oooh, my blood sugar is spiking just thinking about them.
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I have a small baggy of figurines from Red Rose Tea! There were several different shapes in different colors. I actually have a brown bird in the shadow box of my living room. They also use to have small stitchery kits in the tea box. I still have one of purple and yellow pansies that I stitched when I was 16. Too funny!
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My mom bought us the snack pack cereal for camping rtips only.
smithlme, when you said you had a baggy of Figurines, I was thinking of that diet bar from the 70s. I know they had a jingle, but can't think of it jst now.
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Meece,
We had the billboard that you described for Coppertone in Miami way back when I lived there. A huge one right on one of the main downtown roads.
Pat
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I loved those tea figurines -- little animals in all sorts of earth tone colours!!! Loved snack pack cereal. Click clacks. Mood rings.
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Did anyone have a pet rock?
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Nope...no pet rock here. I did have one of those Ronco bottle cutters where you could cut a bottle in half to make candle holders or glasses.
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My Uncle bought my Grandpa a Pet Rock. Made us all wish we had had that idea.
My mother had one of those bottle cutters. I remember a sort of pendulum that she stuck into the bottle after she scribed it, and then she'd tap the bottle apart from the inside.
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oh my goodness....how much fun to read all these things from my childhood.....doubt I could have named most of these, but I do remember then after seeing it in writing!!!! has anybody mentioned "chatty cathy" dolls....or S & G stamps (I got a ping pong table in junior high school with the stamps)....banks giving toasters or other appliances with a new account.....making chains with gum wrappers....I still have one I made in junior high...78 records and the little thingy that went in them to play on regular record players...geeze....now I'm going to have to go back and read the 1st 15 pages and see what else brings a smile to my face or what else I can jog my memory!!! Thanks for starting this thread....
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Karen1956, Check out page 13 of this thread. Chatty Cathy is right there in living color.
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We had Blue chip stamps and S&H Green Stamps. Last thing I bought with them was a busy box for my first baby's crib.
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When banks and large appliance stores gave away the small appliances, didn't they call them "premiums"?
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leisure ("looser") suits; creme on the top of milk that came in glass bottles; bottles of creme (and to think we put that on top of our cereal); Beatle bobble head dolls...oh why did I listen to my mom and give them away!!!! but who knew in the 60's that they would be worth something today...and Sir Paul is still as cute as can be....I saw him in concert in 2005 and he was just unbelievable....I think the finest concert I have ever seen.....and remember painted and decorated purses made from workmen's lunch pails....and what was that brand of soap that people decorated with ribbon and beads etc....someone mentioned bubble gum cigarettes, but remember candy cigarettes....the "in living color" peacock....did anyone have a Francie doll (like a Barbie doll....she was the first one with bendie knees and elbows...dry shampoo....oh this is so much fun!!!!!
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It was Sweetheart Soap decorated with tulle, hat pins, and ribbons to make a "fish" that you set on your bathroom counter. Remember the knitted poodles to cover toilet paper rolls? My grandma made those. Pot holders made at camp from cotton loops on a metal loom. Hobo bags (purses) of leather or suede with the fringe on the bottom. We had Top Value stamps which were yellow and S & H green stamps. My mom used to let me pick out what we were going to buy with them. Lorna Doone cookies ("I'd fly to the moon for a Lorna Doone."). Do you remember "slave" necklaces decorated with pop can rings?? Painful to wear. I had a Tammi doll, similar to Francie. My brother got me a Pet Rock for Christmas one year. Wonder what happened to it?
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